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GenieGenieGenie writes "After all the talk of printed guns and the problems they pose to traditional methods of perimeter security, we get a live demo courtesy of some rather brave journalists from Israel's Channel 10, who took the plastic weapon known as the Liberator past security into the Israeli parliament, and held it within meters of the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. I say brave because had they been caught pulling this stunt, which involved taking their toy out of the bag while sitting in the audience of a speech by the prime minister, they would have faced some real steel. Haaretz has the video (sorry, Hebrew only at the moment) [Google-translated version of the article -- Ed.] where you can follow the breach (from ~6:30) and see them pass the metal detector and the moment when the gun comes out. The movie also shows some testing of the gun in a police-supervised weapons range. Parliament security officials said that 'this is a new phenomenon and they are checking the subject to give it a professional solution as quickly as possible.' I hope this doesn't mean we will now officially face an era of ever more intruding security checks at entrances to events like this." Would-be Liberator printers, take note: the testing shows the barrel violently separating from the rest of the gun.

It scales fine. Two airports? Two scanning stations. There is no scaling issue.

Explain to me how, precisely, you propose to expand the threat scope from Israel's to the United States', implement it at every controlled airport in the US, screen and train enough agents to support it at all those locations, admin it nationwide, and mollify the huge identity politics movement in the US that will scream RACISM at the very notion of *not* consciously ignoring every single quantifiable attribute of the individuals you are evaluating as threats.

Yeah, if I come up to you and question why my Tazer and beating-stick make you nervous while I'm brandishing them at you, you're gonna feel nervous

The people doing the profiling apparently aren't even in uniform, they're just ordinary-seeming people who start talking with you. Almost like professionals can also think of problems that you can think of in 30 seconds, or something.